Coaches seems to do a great job when we see how they coached. We see that kids have a good fundamental techniques in tennis. But why they kept losing?
One of the factor may be answered here. There are things that these coaches are lacking of in their training session. The combination of little pieces in tennis.
A good player is a thinking player. Tennis players who are good in tennis court understand the overall picture of the tennis game. They know what to do in most of the situation. It happens in training.
Hitting forehands are “easy”. But to make it impactful and giving the points to the player is not that easy. When a player knows how to hit, he must also know where to hit. The understanding of where and when to hit should be taught in tennis.
This comes to training session of getting inclusion of extra balls in drills. We often sees the serve + 1. Where to serve + where to hit after the serve. Note that most of the points in tennis are ended below 4 strokes.
Apart from the serve + 1, coaches can integrate other things such as below:
1. Return + 1
2. Forehand + 1
3. Backhand + 1
3. Volley + 1
4. Approach + 1
Above are just some of the example of thing coaches can do to increase the ability of players to hit. There a thousands of things to do in practice and integration of the small little things like this will make players better in matches. We practice to win matches right?
To do that, train like we are going to win matches..